I play 10-2 every week and I do it a little differently.
10-11: Recognizable hits from 2-5 years ago, occasional throw back. Much quicker switches between genres so people dont get board well the club is filling up.
11-1130 (ish): crank it up, all daceable stuff. never any slow jams, no slow grindy hip hop, Its always girls 1st tot he floor and they dont want shit. You are trying to build the dacne floor at this point, people will want to see the dance floor going when they come in. They are of if the bars look empty as long as you got a solid dance floor.
1130-1:15 (ish): this is my bulk of the night. When playing by myself I take people on an adventure. Up and down though the BPM range. In here I can play some grindy hiphop, big EDM tracks with proper brake downs, Fully commit to a genre for a good 20 mins, This part of the night I always play in key and never radio mix any tracks. I can go off on mini tangents (never more than a 1 min long) some beat juggling, or live looping transitions into different genre's to cycle the dance floor. Its always important to keep the bar busy, which means you need to keep people in the club but not everyone on the dance floor all night.
1;15-2: this is my time, request are done and over with, people are so drunk you can go a little left field and play so of your favs. I am (for lack of a better term) an EDM guy. This is where I (and if I'm battling) we go hard. Nothing but banging track, usually mixed very quickly until the end of the night. To clarify EDM as I see it, Tracks from all BPM ranges, banger jumping around going wild tracks. Dubstep and trap to mid tempo Dillion Francis, major lazer type stuff, to 128 anthems, and more and more big sounding future house anthems. Also I throw in a throw back hip hop mini set int he middle of it somewhere. Again quick mixes for everything verse chorus out.
We dont have or do a cool down time around here. you never bring them down or make them want to leave before the drinks stop being served, so I know many other will need a cool down set at the end, but that up to your venue. Nearly every Saturday (our big night) there's a one more song chant. And we play some cheesy classic track or one last banger with the house lights on.
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generally do at least 10 to 15 minutes of a genre unless we are talking like hip-hop, r&b, pop etc (basically the same genre). This sounds good to me:
Excatly this^ 110-80BPM shit is all the same generally. My "hip-hop" folder really is a mainstream club folder without any "dance" music. Pop, Hip hop it's all the same I try to stick to BPM ranges for a period of time rather than genre's. 10-15 is a good length of time.
I also have a create for everything I play before 12 and other for everything after 12.
I see the rangers like this:
135-122 BPM (2 groups inside that range, Mainstream and Dance Music)
120-110 BPM (2 groups again, mainstream, and faster midtempo Dance shit)
109-90 BPM 1 group, I jump between genres at will in here, Mid tempo dace stuff mixes with everything hip hop and top 40 in this range.
90-80 BPM really I only have hip hop in this range, the occasional EDM, drum and bass, dubstep tracks show up in here, But I dont play them too often.
80-70 BPM Rap/Trap and Dubstep. Again I see these all the same and switch between them all regularly.
As a rule for me no track is faster that 140 or slower than 70. But there are always exceptions. 99% of my tracks get BPM'ed between that range, Bugatti and some other rap/hip hop will full in that category of below 70 and definitively not 140, same as a old Tiesto track that 142 wont get played as 71. Again those are exceptions.
Playing nothing but reggae or afrobeat, or hell dubstep/trap/128EDM shit for any long length of time i find boring. That's why I look at BPM ranges and rather than genres.
